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ISDA Margin Survey Year-End 2020

Date 21/04/2021

The ISDA Margin Survey analyzes the amount and type of initial margin (IM) and variation margin (VM) posted for non-cleared derivatives. The survey also reviews the amount of IM posted by all market participants to major central counterparties (CCPs) for their cleared interest rate derivatives (IRD) and credit default swap (CDS) transactions.

BME: MARF Reaches 100 Issuers With The Listing Of Inveready’s New Commercial Paper Programme

Date 21/04/2021

BME’s Fixed Income Market, MARF, today admitted the first Commercial Paper (CP) Programme for trading from The Nimo's Holding, the parent company of the Inveready Group. This listing gives the new issuer flexible access to qualified investors to diversify its financing sources and place CP up to a maximum outstanding balance of 20 million euros. The future issues will be guaranteed by several Inveready Group’s companies.

BIS: The Anchoring Of Long-Term Inflation Expectations Of Consumers: Insights From A New Survey

Date 21/04/2021

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With euro area inflation and professionals' long-term euro area inflation expectations persistently below the European Central Bank's inflation aim, a key question for the ECB is whether long-term inflation expectations have de-anchored. To date, most of the empirical work has relied on measures of expectations of professionals, while little is known about the expectations of firms and of households

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Earns Top Honors at the 2021 Global Banking & Finance Awards® - LexisNexis Risk Solutions Wins Best Anti-Fraud/Security Solutions Provider Across Four Regions

Date 21/04/2021

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions announced that it won four accolades at the 2021 Global Banking & Finance Awards®. The recognition came in the Business Technology category with LexisNexis Risk Solutions winning Best Anti-Fraud/Security Solutions Provider in the Asia Pacific, Latin America, United States and Western Europe regions.

2020 Financial Year: EEX Group

Date 21/04/2021

In 2020, EEX Group successfully continued its global growth path by increasing its sales revenues and achieving a new record result.

AFME Welcomes EC Legislative Proposal On Sustainability Disclosures But Emphasises The Need For Appropriate Sequencing Of Regulatory Measures

Date 21/04/2021

AFME welcomes the European Commission’s publication of the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) aiming to revise the existing EU Non-Financial Reporting directive (NFRD).

Remarks Of CFTC Commissioner Dawn D. Stump On Clearing-Up A Few Things About Clearing

Date 21/04/2021

During the past decade, the focus in the derivatives clearing space has been implementation of new clearing mandates for over-the-counter (OTC) products—a response to the last crisis.  But no one could have predicted what was to come, and as a crisis of a different sort emerged and the pandemic surged in 2020, the global derivatives markets experienced a real-time stress test, surviving heightened volatility, increased volumes, and interest from a wider variety of market participants.

Liquidnet Report - Part 1: IPOs, The Backbone Of SME Eco-Structure

Date 21/04/2021

Click here to download  a report by technology-driven, global institutional investment network, Liquidnet, titled IPOs, the backbone of SME eco-structure. The report is Part One of a four-part series, Solving the SME Conundrum, which analyses the challenges facing SMEs and their access to capital markets.

ICE Announces That A Record 18,848 Murban Crude Oil Futures Contracts Traded On April 20

Date 21/04/2021

• 132,450 contracts traded in total on ICE Futures Abu Dhabi since launch
• Liquidity out to January 2022 contract
• Record Open Interest of more than 42,000 contracts

Market Participants Identify Key Operational Areas For Improvement Post-Pandemic In New DTCC Paper - Reconciliations, Valuations, Collateral And Fails Management Top Areas Of Opportunity - Firms Express Support For Accelerating The US Securities Settlement Cycle

Date 21/04/2021

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today published a white paper examining how capital markets operations responded during the COVID-19 pandemic and where market participants are focused in a post-pandemic future.